Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
TEN YEARS IN THE PEN.
Cashier Harper Found Guilty on All
Counts. Gets the Highest Penalty Of
the Law.

Cashier Harper Found Guilty ON All
Counts. Gets the Highest Penalty of
the Law.
CINCINNATI, December 12.-The greatest
crowd gathered in the corrid ors Of the
United States Court room since tho open.
ing Of the Harper trial assembled this
morning long before opening OF court:
Judge Sage appeared alone. Soon after
the jury were seated Harper entered, look.
ing pale and concerned. Behind him came
bis vile, looking as though upbo1ne by
faith, that in some way she was to hear
good news from the jury. When they were
seated the clerk tore open the sealed envel.
ope inclosing the sentence and read the
fatal words, I'VE. the jury. find the defend
ant guilty a. charged in the Indictment"
This meant guilty on all thirty-three counts
LETT for the jury to act upon. Mrs. Harper
sat is il transfixed, but Miss Matthews
found relief in tears: Blackburn moved an
arrest OF judgment. which the court in.
stantly overruled. Then the District At.
torney moved for immediate sentence and
that the sentence be cumulative. Judge
Sage overruled the motion and asked il the
defendant had any thing to say before
SENTENCE WAS PRONOUNCED
upon him. Blackburn said that the DEFEND
ant wished him to say that he had moth
ing to add to what had been said, exceptto
thank the court for it's fair and impartial
trea tment, and to ask that the court be as
merciful as tine circumstances and the law
would permit. The court directed Harper
to stand up. It was q most distressing
scene. The strong man stood erect with
tears coursing down his cheeks, but no
other signs of emotion. save his blanched
face. Behind his chair, with bowed head,
sat bis wife in an agony that had no better
manifestati ton than the wringing Of her
hands. The court with impressive solem-
nifty, recited the usual form OF sentence,
saying the evidence left no doubt OF the de.
fendant's guilt, and that the odspse mer-
tied
THE HIGHEST PENALTY
of the law, which the court would now i'm
pose-ten years in the Ohio penitentiary-
and that the marshal convey him thither
at once. Harper then sat down. Turning
to his wife, their lips met, her hands we're
around his neck, his arms encompassed
her neck. The silence in the court room
was awful. Jurors wept, women and men
all over the court room were in tears The
silence was broken by Blackburn making
last request from the court that the order
for Immediate Imprisonment be suspended,
and gave as a reason that there was much
business to he attended by Harper. in
which his wife was closely concerned, and 1T
would be exceedingly diff ficult to attend to
it unless Harper could remain here Tor a
few DAYS, cut the court was relentless ana
repeated the order to the marshal to con-
vey him thither to-day.
HE WILL RUN A sEwING.MACHINE.
COLUMBUS, December 12.-The first chap
ter in the great wheat deal and Fidelity
Bank wreck was concluded tonight in the
arrival OF Edward L. Harper at the peni'
tentiary. He was welcomed to Columbus
by an audience of about 200. who had
gathered at the depot to get the hrst slsht
of the great financier. He was accom-
panied by his wife and her sister. On ar
rlvinc at the prison the warden and Harper
retired to q side Office; they talked over the
provision which would be made for him in
the way OF work. The warden suggested
he might operate . sewing.machine in the
State shop AZ he understood it when he was
engaged in the sewing-machine business.
With good behavior he can make two and
a hai wears on his sentence. In taking
lea We OF the reporters Harper stated ne did
not expect to be in prison long, and TINS
idea seemed to cheer him, as well as his
wife. neither of whom expressed any emo
tion.